The Pilot and his Wife

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e kept up the fire alone at night. It was only as he was drawing his last breath, and she sat by his side and bent over him, forgetful of aught else, that it was for a while neglected; and it was this little moment that had caused Salvé suc

f the hour. It was talked of at the Amtmand's-a house with two handsome daughters, where Lieutenant Beck was a daily visitor-and it was in everybody's mouth how, all alone out on Torungen with her dying grandfather, she had been the means of saving the Juno, and had since risked her life on the ic

the bustling ladies of the town even came in person to see her aunt and talk over the girl's future. When Carl Beck, however, gave out that he looked upon these presents as slights upon himself, they ceased. He had only been up there once, and then his eldest sister was with him: but his man

ould live with them for the present with the view of qualifying herself for a housekeeper's place, as she must not be exposed to

Elizabeth's face, however, there passed a momentary cloud. She felt, without knowing why, a sense of oppression at the prospect o